When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
AGNES DENESWe use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn’t want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.
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Maybe that’s why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.
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If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they’re locked into their little specializations.
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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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I always was alone. And I’m alone today. It’s fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together.
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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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